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Unlike Peter Schreyer's striking Optima, which clearly thumbs its nose at his previous masters in Wolfsburg by showing them what the new Volkswagen Passat could've looked like, Kia's new full-size sedan has some serious post-Bangle BMW happening.

Kia has enlisted the social network's hive mind to come up with a name for the machine, and so far, nothing has blown our mind, save for someone's suggestion of “Lagos." That's only because we've long nursed a fantasy of bombing across the Nigerian city in 1970 in a 1965 Wildcat convertible with the Ify Jerry Crusade bumping through the primitive sound system.

The most common response from commenters so far? "5-series." That leaves us wondering, after a killer run over the past few years, has Kia finally made a misstep?

While the car shown here is officially listed as a "concept," don't expect it to change much. A South Korean launch is to come within the first half of this year, followed by a rollout in unspecified global markets. Given the company's ambitions, we'd be more surprised if it didn't make a U.S. appearance--perhaps under the name Kia Dalek?